The Sun. — London, England, 1808-03-21 00:00:00

;. ,~ ~;;? ~,,, :~ ~~ ~: HOUSE OF PEERS. SATURDAY, MARCH 19. • MAILS. Altit v D-z. GottmburAb, 2 Dublin, 4 Waterford. Due t Malta, 2 Dublin, t Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWLI.YE O'CLOCK. THE S \UN. 410 E. ail QUZI DICIAL FALEUI4 ALIDLiT ? L 0 N ON, HUNG Y, MAItCH 21, 1808. RIAL PIIRLIAMENI. I The House met at four o'clock, when the , Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed; <<Mien the question for the third reading was put, Lord Gaut rose and said, ho should move the words "allowing individuals to enlistitimunlimited service" be left oUt of the Bill.—His LOrdship said he did not mean to discuss the point, and 'he only made the motion that his opinion of the dense might inserted in the Journals of the House.' The mo• non was then put, and it was negatived ,without a division, and the House adjoUrntid. 64 } - - - - Consols Intelligence was this morning received at the Ad miralty, of a very gallant action which was lately . fought off the coast of Norway, between the Childers Sloop of War, 9f 1 ti guns, Capt, DILLON, and a Da. hist) Privateer of very superior force. • :Unfortnnately the engagement took place so near the shore, that the Privateer Was enabled to etre& her, escape into port. We are sorry to add; that Captain DlLLoti ‘ is severely wounded, and ten of.the men belong ing to the Childers are either killed . or wound ed. The Childers hasbrought away a Prize ' , Gallia, which she bravely cut out.of Fleckeroe. Two . Mails.from.Gottenhurgh arrived yesterday, Extraas from which will be found in it'sUbsecluent Column. It appears that sotte,skiriniSheiliavg taken place between the „Russians and the Swedes, in which the latter had the advantage, bait were nevertheless compelled, by the inferiority of their numbers, to fall back, for, the purpose of tak ing a more concentrated position. The Itus sians dp not rely for success on the superiority of their numbers, but have had recour§e to expedients, which a few months .ago the Emperor ALEXANDPI would have disdained to use. A Prochimation has been puolfslied by the Russian . . General, Count Box . MOVDEN, addressed to the Soldiers in Finland, in which he Invites them to betray their SoVereign, and offers them a certain sum for any muskets, Swords, bor.,es, &c. that they may bring away with them. These - Mails do not contain any intelligence of a decisive nature with reSpea to the report which has . been circulated of a Negotiation having commenced between France, Russia, and Sweden ; it appears, - howevcr, that the KING of SWEDEN has sent his Aid-de-Camp to .Paris, and, pressed as he is on all sides by enemies so superior in power, we.shall not . be surprised to find that His Swedish Majesty has been compelled to submit to circumstances, and to negotiate for a Peace, rather titan continue a contest in which success could harldly be hoped for and in which defeat 'would be attended with utter ruin. JUST before thls Paper was put 'to Pre* we re ceived some more American . ich the ibllowing are * . . • " BOSTON, Fan. Washington, Jan. 23. , --Very little respeaing the Negotiation tran spires, and the effeet is a' daily cross of hopes and. fears; as far as meets the eye things go on smoothly: " Mr. Ross has made his visits of ceremony to the Senators, as Ivkmbers of th Treaty-making Powers; and I believe the principles on which we shall treat with the Britkh Envoy have been settled in the Cabinet. What they are cannot be long concealed; " Mr. knArriss Motion respealing the coutinu. once of the Embargo, has been negativedlay a large Majority in the Senate of the United States. " PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 26.--lnformaticn from Wash:ngton, combined with the disposition of the. British Cibinet to delay the execution of the late Orlers in Council, leave but Lithe doubt that the mis sion o f Mr, Roo will terminate in an honourable and amicable adjustment of all diiii.TenceS between the United States and Qreatßritain. " Letters have been received to the gth of February from Boston, one of which says, ":that every thing wears a pleiising aipeci, and that war with this country was generally thought would not,take place." WE mentioned lastmeek the 'departure of the late Prussian Ambassador, Baron JA cora, from Lnntion be arrived.at Dover on. Friday, rind immediately em barked in a Flag ofTruce for Calais. But so strictly were the regulatkons for preventing all intercourse with hilt Country" obserbed there, that the' Baron was not permitted to land ; ho wostherante under Le arrived iu Town. We this morning received the following Leiter upon tliiisubjeEt from wit . inteligctit Corittspondvnt at Dover : DuVER, MARCH 20.---Bilroll JACOBI and his j Suite returned yesterday in the Vessel which 'tilled as a Flag of Truce, having been refused permission to land. They sailed on Friday, and arrived close in with Calaii,late that night, and, being within hail, were informed _ the Vessel would be fired on if she attempted to enter the 'Harbour, and that no person could be landed from 'her. Baron hoosi.coneeiving this must have arisen through mistake, direitted the Master of the Vessel to-run her close to the Her bour's mouth the next morning, and shortly after wards the Commandant of Calais came on board, and informed the Baron, his orders were peremptory, not to allow any. Flag of Truce to enter the Har bour, or the slightest communication between the , people on board and the shore. The Baron was, very desirous of sending a Letter on shore, that it might be forwarded to Paris, but even this was re fused, and the Commandant was heard to say, that any Flags of Truce -Which should in future attempt to eater Calais woeld be tired upon. Baron JAOunz and Suite left Dovcr to return to London yesterday afternoon." The Marning Chronicle exclaims, in some sar castic remarks on the escapo of the RoChefort Squa dron from Sir RICUARD STRACHAN" IflitioNA 7 PAItTz had the same maritime power that we havei how' differently would it be exercised" !! ! This is extending the licence which that Paper assumes, of sacrificing the reputation of this Country to the. honour of its bitt erest Enemy, somewhat too" far.— Has - the Morning blironicle forgotten that BUONA ionarE possessed'" the satne. maritime power" as ourselves, when this same Sir RICHARD STRACHAN hero said, like nil other cruizing . Squadron's', " to be only bent on making prizes !"), with. foOr Ships of the Line, fell ".n with an equal number of BU.OkAPAIITE'B I : and, in defiance of his superior ma.- nagement, captured ►l:em all ! Again—Did the Morning Chronicle never 'hear of :one NEi.sog, a person not altogether obscure, who, ,almost under, the eye of this applauded 8t701..ii1.- PARTE, Whose " management of. maritime affairs is so able," attacked 'a Fleet far more powerful than his own,,and captured and destroyed, eleven Sail of the Line.out of thirteen !! ! Or, to sum up all, did (ha name - of 'Trafalgar never reach his ears ?—a memorable spot, where (his same NaLsott, with only twenty-seven Ships, attacked • tlitty,thtee of the largest and finest Vessels which the °dean ever bore, and, notwithstanding the " different manner in ,which the maritime,power of 8u0N,,,, PA LUTE is exercised," captured and cicstr , yed twenty, three of them, .14141 disabled the remainder ! If these matters' have not come to the knowledge of the Morning Chronicle; if .he is not informed, that, in spite of the " Superibr address of BUONTA PARTE in managing his fleet," it is now, together with that of his fortunate Allies, reduced by his ca lumniated countrymen to a few small squadrons, which skulk about from port to port, in terror and dismay, he is seriously to be pitied. But if, as we suSpeai be is aware of those incontrovertible fairs, what language of reprobation can be strong enough for a writer who has the baseness, in the face of all Europe, to accuse the Officers of the English Navy, who have chaced the flying squadrons of France from sea to sea, of attending only to mercantile cap. , tures ; and the assurance to boast of the address of an enemy, who has seen more than sixty Sail of the 'Line snatched from his "superior management," and sUffered the " maritime power" of his empire to dwindle into insignificance, amidst his most btre nuous exertions The great number of Signatures to the Man. ehelter Petition, presented on. Friday to the House of Commits, is the only argument that can be urged in its favOur,.and' yet when. we coustder in what manner signatures are procured, and from wh;mt they are in general derived, it is not 'an argu, meat of much.force. Indeed it has been asserted, without contradiaion, that the names of thousands have been placed in the list of subscribers to this very Petirion, who never saw or heard. of it 'till they heard that their names had thus been annexed. Women, aPprentices, and children, it is positively said, have been on this occasion brought, for ward to give their opinion upon the necessity of Peace, and to advise the Legislature to adopt such measures as their wisdom might suggest for the 4unitiment of that desirable objed. Nothing can be more Obvious than that Ministers must be full as anxious to relieve every class of the People from the pressures of War as their opponent's, who insti gate such PetitionS. But the chief objeaion to these Petitions is, that, while they tend to embarrass Government, they tend also to give auitnation.to our Enenilea, 3114 thereby throw obstaehis is the ....J -J'.. forw ad to accelerate. The Enemymust necessarily conclude that these Petitions will at length induce our Goveniment to make advance& for the again :meta of Peace, and consequently diSpose that Eno: my, proportionably to advance in his requisitions ; or if he does. not believe so himself, he will at least have an opportunity of endeavouring to make bis sub jeas and dependent Powers believe so. The mischief of these Petitions is. glaring, and there is no qualifying advantage to accompany it. We therefore doubt not that many persons may be induced to subscribe such Petitions from the best motives, .as well as others who have no view but to perplex Governmen t and advance themselves; the majority of the people have too much good sense to give any encourage ment to Gun, or to suppose, thatany thing but na tional vigour, and a due regard to the national ho nour, will tend to procure that Peace which alone we should accept, unless we mean to sink into the same degraded state as those . Powers who have sub mitted to the arms, or have been ensnared by the arts, of the common enemy of them all. Yesterday morning His AfASESTY, Princesses SOPHIA, AUGUSTA, and ,MAttr, accompanied by Lady ISABELLA THYNNII,• Generals MANNERS and FITZROY, rode to St. George's Maki, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. DIGBY, frolll St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, chap. xii.. ver. 12; and afterwards returned to the Palace. FIE 3 MAJESTY,Princeises ELIZABETH and AME LIA, had divine service performed at the Palace. Samrday night, at eight o'clock, the Infant Daugh ter of Mrs. PERCIWAL, Lady 'of the. Chancellor of the Exche quer , was baptized at his house in Down ing- . street. The Sponsors 'were, her ROyal High ness the Princess of WALES, his Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND, and the Duchess of BRUNS-. wicx. The ceremony was perfermed by his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, attended by his Chaplain. Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at- the-Duke of PORTLAND'S, for the convenience of his Grace, wholi confined with the gout. Earls CANIDE . N and, BA ruuttsT, Lords HAWKESBURY and CAS-TLEREAGII, and Mr. CANNING were present. The sitting con tinued from two till four o'clock. • Sir Jour" STUART Is to embark on board th e .414- criey.Sloop of War, for Sicily. Si' Jolts; retains the Staff appointed by his successor (Sir J. Moons) in the command of the army in that Island. The General Officers who composed the Court Martial for the trial of General WitursLocKrhT ing agreed upon their sent ence , s i gne d i t reap : lively on Friday, atter which the Court was dissolved. • . . _ • .. The. preparations which 'were on Thursday ma king.for dissublitling the Hall at Chelsea, in which the late Court-Martial was held, have been counter manded, it being understood that the conduct of another General Officer at Buenos Ayres is about to become the subject of investigation. A Gentleman just returned from Spain and Porta gal,•and who was in Lisbon at the time of the insur reaitim, stases, that the French on that occasion lost. upwards of fifteen hundred men. Nothing, he says, can exceed the hatred of the Portuguese to them. They :go, according to the usual, eftitom, armed with knives, and take every opportunity (if assassi nating the French soldierS as they walk the streeti; evert in the open day. Mr. ADAIR had arrived at Trieste on the lath . . of February, from Vienna, and waited the arrival of a flag of truce to carry him to Malta. Hii wife, who is a French woman, remains it Vienna. Major-GeUeral WA LTE SDORP, Admiral LurKENs, and Adjutant-General KIRC Hop, brought to, a Court Martial for the surrender of Copenhagen, were on the Ist instant acquitted and liberated. The Guards, who were ordered to hold them • selves in readiness for service in tke Baltic, have been countermanded. A Lady, with her two children, left Paris on the 3d inst. for Rotterdam, from whence she contrived, with 13 other persons, to escape in Inl open boat to a small vessel, which safely landed them at Harms wich on Saturday last, for which passage they paid, no less asutu.than 22001. Extrad from a Danish Paper, dated Match 1 BourdeaUx, Feb. 10. An American Vessel just arrived .here was stops in the offing by an English Frigate, -the Captain of which thought proper to let the American proceed, observing, I have orders not to detain any Ships of your nation." It is shocking to see the etreas of French influence on the charaCter of the Empeior ALEXANDER, us manifested in the : insidious Pro c la mation circulated in Finland, in order to seduce the subjects of the gallant King of SWEDRN from their allegiance. A, few months ago the Russian Monarch was considered' as Arbiter of the North, and the last hope of the Continental Powers. But he is now so much sunk in reputation, that even his own subjects Must view . ,with pity and contempt. -'On Tuesday se'nnight a stag was turned out near Epsom powns, before Lord.DEIILIYIS hounds, 'which, atier a very severe run of near 50 tilile3 (in the course of •which, it is supposed, five hundred leaps were taken), was taken near Cucktield, Sussex, 14 miles froM Brighton. Although there was a field of upwards of one hundred Gentlemen, • the number 'was diminished to six before the taking of the deer,. and the horses, of those so completely knocked np, as to be unable to return home that evening, %math, the exception of one Gentleman, the . huntstnan, and . whipper-in. We understand the Gentlemen of the Long Robe will shortly by employed on a grini. Con. business of 'much interest—The parties, are a Northern Baronet of large fortune, and a Lady o f ran k an d f as hi on, the wife of a Navaigtfice r . • A Lady of fashion in Hampshire, it is said, eloped last week with her footrrian, leaving an atieaionate husband and ten children. The inhabitants of Birmingham have presented a swnrcl of 400,guineas value to Capt: ROGfiftS, for his gallant defence of one of the Packets, in the West . ladies., against a vessel of greatly superior force.' Preta the LONDON GAZETTE, March ;9, IS :S. iirlmiralty Office, Afarch 19, 1808. Copyof a Leiter from Vice-Admiral Russell, C'oin« inanili7 in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and cs scf the Texel, to the Hon. W W Pole, dated on4i6hrd His:Majesty's Ship Mojestic, Yarmouth- Road?, the 18th instant. • sue, I herewith Inclose. a • Letter from Lieutenant M'Culloch, Commander of the Princess Augusta Hired Cutter, giving an account of his having driveti the Dunkerquois, - a French Privateer, on shore at Katwick, on the sth instant; and of hii having efa feauallykdestroyed her on the Bth which 1 beg yoli will laybefOtd.thy Lords Commissioners ; of the Ada, I am, &c. T. 'M. RUSSELL. his Algjesty's Sited Caner Princess Augusta, Yarmouth Roads, Mardi. 17, 1808. Sut-4 have the honour to inform you, that whilst cruizing, pursuant to your orders, the rtexel then bearing S. 40 deg. E. distant forty miles, I fell in iNith,!on the evening of the'sth, and gave Chace to, a French Cutter Privateer, which, after a chide of twenty-four hours, I , drove on shore at. Katwick ;' it then blowing too fresh for the hoes to attack her, and perceiving her crew unrigging of her, I stood as close in as possible, and attacked her from the. CUtter, whith she returned; but on the evening of -- in, and had-ath,lh ;he the‘c*Catplieerasu moderating, of effed I sent my Boats ually ;destroying her, under a heavy fire of musketry from the shore.* She proved to be, from the information of the fisher- men, the Dunk e rquoii, of Dunkirk, .mounting' fiat „ three-pounders and forty-five men ; formerly. Majesty's Revenue, Cutter Nimble, of Deal. I have the honour to be, 84c. (Signed) A. MiCULLOCK, Tu T. A!. R usse ll, E sq .. Vice-Admiral of the -lilac, 2'arm9ulh. ScuLy-,. Mhumt v.—Came in leis 3.l:ijesty's Guti.i*g, Virago, with a' Fleet of Coasteri, from Ire]a dY. the 'Galliot k row .Reskeyana, from Bour. deaur, 3adett With wine and vinegar, detained by thtt Snnp Dragon, of Plymouth ; Gosport Brig, Foal), Master, froM Dartmouth to tiv - erPool ; the Plover Sloop of - 'War; Capt.* Buowttf, from a cruise; St. 4hin6 t a„krench Chasse . MarCte, prize to , Frigate', laden-with rye and oats. ! . Mitten t t.' Sailed the Shark Cutter, of Bari"; stapie,..MATittiNS ) Master, on a cruise. Arrived the Pegasus, BARIUM, Master, from Cardiff, with iron, to London; Lion Privateer, from Plymouth, on a cruize; #success, BROW N, from . London to Dublin, with sundries ; Experiment, : CHAPMAN, from Chepstow to Deptford, with tim ber; Bee, HOLLET, from Yarniouth to Liverpool.' with xlioat ; and Vila, New or e . from, ChathA to Chepstow. PLYMOUTLI, MARCH 19,—Sailed the Hindman, of 50 guns, with a quantity of 'live bullocks, and other provisions and necessaries, for .the supply of the Squadron cruizing off the Tagus. Arrived the Pallas Vrigate,. of . 36 guns, anal Pickle Schooner, of 14 guns, fronx a cruize: PORTOLOUTH, MARCH 20.—Yesterclay arrived tb .„. nsiant Frigate from, a cruize off Guernsesu 9 10 this day . the Escort . GUn- brig from the,DoWns. Sailed' the inconstant Frigate, Beagie Sloop of • War, Adonis and Flyilif 'FLA Schooners on separate cruized.:"c ; A Lettel l 'lts been. received from Capt. SILK,. of the William and Mani, from London, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, by a Gentleman who was wait. i ng h er arrival . at this Port t o g o passenger in her, stating, that.said.Vessel was d r i ven o n shore neat : tiavrerAtt-,ruCe In the gale of last month, and tha t `she had'heen uilten,posies44in of by an Armed %Pei sel and ittletl'into that Po r t.. . The Hon. Copt. 131.m.Awoon i s appointed to tha . . Tarspite, of 74 guns, at Chmligu. Captain Siric s9 P to the Diomede, Sir EDMUND N'AOLE'S Flag spip• Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ will hoist his flag on boar d the Piaory, of 100 guns, at. Chatham, for the BA' tic. Therßarileur, of 98 guns, Capt. Mgl,l3OD) is, 'as was before stated, for the flag of .ilear,Admira l, OTWAY. • ---- SIMERNESS, MARCH 1 S.—Sailed the Mary Tett, der for Leith, Blazer Gun-brig, Lit Alt. Hprros, fot the Downi. • The Turbulent Gun-brig, Lieutenant Nores, has made the Convoy signal for Gottenburgh.—Wind. 7 North East. - SHEERNESS, MARCII Co.—The Ships from the River for, the, Greenland Fishery are colle&ing here, and are to beconvoyed to their station . by La .I.oi o Frigate, 4 ; 36 guns, Capt. SC:HOMBURG/I; and S' cess, ofl4vlCapt. AYscouon, who are to retnaifl OP that station:tn.; Z ~~1 1 DISTRIBUTION OF 'PRIZB.MONEY. To the. Leander, for the Captureof the Ville de Mi1 3 "... 1 1 No. 12, Upper Thames- street, on the 234 eve ry "; day for. three months at the same place, fo the Leander, for the Capture of the'Vengeeneep at 12, Upper ThaliMl-11t1V1, .00 the .a3tt inst. and- every (1 3 7 for three tnonthVit th; • aatite place. To the SinoprPort 'Mahon, for the Capture of the Herbia, at No; 22, Ar . tindel-street, tor three years. To LiEgyinterine, fur the Capture or La l'amlina, 01' the 23d inst. at No. 9, New E r ro3d-stroet, and every W°llle4 !' - ' and Thursdax for three months at the same place - To L'Exyp_te,.no; tor the Coyture of 23t1 inst. at Noia. Ntw broad-street, and every and Thursday, fiTr three,months at the saioe pince. To L'Egypnanne, for the Cap ture of L'Ettowird, at 11° ' r t New Broad-street, on the 2.0 inst. and every We-tide:o 3 Y Thursday for three months, at the same place. L'Esperaltvlinocnsdt;